BIND9 does not respond at all

[charles]

Have you tried talking about things that bind is interested in?
Perhaps an afternoon movie and dinner?
You could work with bind8 and make it jealous.

while you are on the machine, can you run
strace /truss / par on the box?

is your chroot jail to tight?

are you able to open a socket on port 53?

what shows up in the error logs?

what does a packet sniff show?

are your security features on to tight (ipchains/



>>>Currently it's only configured as a caching server, though I have also
>>>tried to set up a zone.  Even the queries for the zone do not get a
>>>response.
>>>
>>>Does anyone have any ideas I can try to track this down?  Running bind
>>>9.2.3, on Redhat linux 9 w/ kernel 2.4.20-smp.  Here is my configure line:
>>>../configure --prefix=/usr --with-libtool --with-openssl --enable-threads
>>>--sysconfdir=/etc/bind --localstatedir=/var
>>>
>>>Thank you!